Plan To Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Record & deadlines

1. Jan 28, 2017Signed

   Signed by the President

2. Feb 2, 2017FR published

   Published in the Federal Register · 82 FR 9125

   Federal Register PDF
3. Feb 27, 2017

   Preliminary draft of Plan to defeat ISIS submitted to President

Key directives

• Secretary of Defense to develop comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS
• Preliminary draft due within 30 days
• Plan must include strategy for military defeat, rules of engagement changes, public diplomacy and cyber strategies, coalition partner identification, financial targeting mechanisms, and funding strategy
• All executive departments and agencies must promptly provide requested information
• Secretary of Defense authorized and directed to publish memorandum in Federal Register

Who is ordered

• Secretary of State · State Department
• Secretary of the Treasury · Treasury Department
• Secretary of Defense · Department of Defense
• Attorney General · Department of Justice
• Secretary of Energy · Department of Energy
• Secretary of Homeland Security · Department of Homeland Security
• Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff · White House
• Director of National Intelligence · ODNI
• Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs · White House
• Counsel to the President · White House
• Director of the Central Intelligence Agency · CIA
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff · Department of Defense
• Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism · White House

Related orders

• referencesEO NSPM-2

What to expect

Risks & tensions

• Rules of engagement changes exceeding international law requirements could raise legal and humanitarian concerns
• Interagency coordination burden on multiple departments with competing priorities
• Vague 'applicable law' qualifier on information sharing may limit actual compliance
• Funding strategy requirement (sec. 3(a)(vi)(F)) implies potential budgetary tensions with Congress